The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-10-15
vent Of Nyphemburg, in Bavaria, and

vent OF Nyphemburg, In Bavaria, ant
afterward to Schleswig IIolstcin. From
there she was taken TO Italy, to the Ursu
line convent ut Milan. Later she Travelled
in Italy with Uncle Lundi and Lad.
Anna, whose health was failing. They
all came to this country. Before they lel
Uncle Edward came around and bad,
them an aiiectionatc farewell, and sale
that when he and Sophia Adelaide were
all alone she Isight call him father il
she would do so in n whisper
From this country they went to Quito
the capital Of Ecuador, from thence t.
| New Orleans, from New Orleans to Day
| ton, o., where Uncle Lundi was stricken
| down with the cholera. When his physi-
| clans assured him that his case was hope
! less he sent for Sophia Adelaide and told
her the secret Of her birth. He had merely
! taken charge of the child after his brothers
death, and was in no way responsible for
the criminal part of the work. In order
to better protect the fricndlcss girl who
was then 10 years old, he sent for Il priest
and made her the Countess de Lundi. A
few hours after the ceremony he was dead;
and two days later Lady Anna died, Both
! wrre buried in Dayton.
Sophia Adelaide and her maid then went
10 New Orleans, 10 live in the family OF
Mr. Pierce, a friend Of the late Count
I.undi While there she received letters
from "Unce Edward" who urged her to
return 10 England, and assured her OF n
safe retreat" The retreat did not al
lure her. She wrote "Uncle Edward"
that she would prefer to remain in America
Cor Il time, at least He grew angry at
her refusal ard after writing her few
mandatory letters ceased to write her
altogether.
Since then she has lived mostly in Eu-
rope The last eight years OF her life
were spent in France. In Cincinnati the
forlorn princess married lawyer, whom
she had engaged to look after her affairs.
She was subsequently divorced from him,
And. she says, he then married her maid.
For long time, when she wanted
money, she wrote to the Rev. Edward
Bouvrrie, Colehill vicarage, Wiltshire,
England, and got it. He died in 1873.
John Brown, the queens faithful bench
man, gave her money from time to time,
and once when the queen was i'll John
Brown took Sophia Adelaide to Windsor
castle where she stayed all night, but
was sent away in the morning, because
the queen was better.
After John Brown died she got no more
money. She says she has written to
Queen Victoria and to the Prince OF
Wales, but receives no reply. In Berlin
she felt 80 forlorn and abandoned that she
became well nigh desperate. She wrote
TO the crown princess and asked to be
taken into the royal household as a gov
erness, proposition which was not &C
copied. In Paris NJ Mendes, of The Gil
Bias newspaper, and Lesclede, private Sec
Rotary to Victer Hugo, wrote something
about her, which was suppressed in Eng
land and Germany. Edmund Yates
spoke guardedly Of her in The London
World, and so did Vanity Fair. The
Paris papers took up her story and talked
about II extensively. She says she has
been followed and bounded by detectives
all over Europe. In Paris she was perse-
cuted outrageously. There she was
known as the Comtesse de Lundi; but
here she uses the name Of Kent
Mrs. Kent came to the United States
last May, and has been busy ever since
preparing her book and engaging a pub
Usher Her story Is written in the first
person, and, apart from the question OF
its truthfulness, is decidedly interesting
in itself, and quite capable OF engaging
the attention Of the public on its own
merits.
She is AZ years of age, has an astonish.
ingly fresh complexion, brown hair and
large, light gray eyes. Nobody could &C
cuse Mrs. Kent Of insanity. She seems to
have a clear head and good business
Judgment. Her object in coming to Amer
lea is to publish her book, make money
and pay off the debts she was obliged to
contract in Paris She had barely enough
funds for her immediate living expenses
when she arrived She lives at u modest
boarding house. She also asserts that
Pope Leo XIII is in possession OF the rec
"pAls establishing her story.